Kudos to the folks upthread that talked about the importance of having friends on your way up. That, I think, is a really good insight and I never thought about it! Nixon had no friends; Grey Davis had no friends; Eliot Spitzer had no friends. You can be a bully on the way up and it may get you to the top--but when it hits the fan, without someone to say "stop--think about this" or otherwise help you, you are going down fast. Good riddance to a real scum bag.